Lay Sermons

About the author

James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.Gillian Hughes is Advisory Editor to The New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She was editor and/or general editor for many volumes in the Stirling/South Carolina Hogg edition, founding editor of the journal Studies in Hogg and his World, and is the author of James Hogg: A Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Her current projects include an edition (co-edited with Peter Garside) of the Shorter Verse of Walter Scott.The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.

Summary

Lay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick Shepherd

Product details

• Authors: James Hogg
• Assisted by: Gillian Hughes (Editor), Douglas Mack (Editor), Douglas S Mack (Editor), Douglas S. Mack (Editor), Douglas S Mack (Editor), Douglas S. Mack (Editor)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780748607464
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-0746-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 245 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg; Stirling/South Carolina Resear; The Collected Works of James Hogg; Stirling/South Carolina Resear; Stirling / South Carolina Rese
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies